I'm a little torqued that NetApp has opted to change from a tarball that
installs on a linux platform to a virtual appliance approach. In this case
I've trying to test for an upgrade from 7.3.5 to 8.1.1 and even if the
upgrade proces is different for a simulator I'd like to be able to upgrade
the simulator in place to confirm that iSCSI clients can connect to
existing LUNs.

I did try to upgrade the simulator using the same packages the physical
filer will use (v3170 HA pair) with no luck. Tried both packages from the
NA download site and on "software update <file> -r" both complain about
the wrong CPU architecture and bail out.

So now I've moved on to bringing up an 8.1.1 simulator and maybe using
ndmpcopy or snapmirror to migrate those LUNs. But still having trouble.
The tarball I downloaded for the 8.1.1 VM doesn't have any VMX file in it,
just a pair of VMDKs? VWware player won't let me create a new VM and then
reassign a different disk? We do run vSphere here but the old simulator
required the NICs to run in promiscuous mode, is that still the case? If
so, I'm not inclined to put the sim on our production VM farm as it would
mean tweaking production network interfaces.

Anyone had any luck with the 8.x VMware appliance simulator and VMware
Player?
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